Wodonga Middle Years College year eight student, Reece Causby, wants to be a lawyer or an architect.

"I've always had a thing for architecture, like how the design of the building is and drawing it and stuff," he says.

His classmate, Tamsyn Beard, wants to be a children's psychologist and a drummer.

Reece, Tamsyn and the rest of their class are at a 'Future Moves' program workshop at Thurgoona's Charles Sturt University, run by careers advisor Ilena Young.

The program is aimed at broadening the horizons of high-school students who might see university as an unattainable goal, whether through financial or family reasons, or lack of belief in their own capabilities.

While the program's key message is that everyone can go on to higher study, a proposal in the federal budget to uncap university fees will potentially make it more expensive for regional youth.

After the 2014 Budget was released, Charles Sturt University's Vice-Chancellor, Andrew Vann, said CSU course fees would be raised by an average of 23.5 percent if the budget proposal passed unchanged through the Senate.

Mr Vann said environmental science courses would go up by an estimated 114 percent.

Ms Young said that, with these challenges in mind, it was important for students to know their options in advance - especially as predictions showed that children of this generation would have seven careers in their working life.

"The likelihood is that when they move from one career to another, they're going to be having to go into higher education study, whether it's at TAFE, or whether it's at university.

"So it's really important for everyone that they get used to the fact that this is going to be part of their future, and that we can help them overcome their fears now."

Ms Young acknowledged that fee hikes could have the biggest impact on the children involved in programs like 'Future Moves'.

"For the kinds of children that we're trying to target in rural and regional areas, any extra cost involved with education is going to be another challenge for them to overcome," she said.